This is my take on "Swine Flu", the pandemic that never was! And boy, did they have a lot of people buying brown trousers and face masks! All done now, as of today, it's officially over and the panic is over, we're told! So, I was bloody right after all, my words were true!!

The Swines That You Are

You best beware the swine flu, you best be very fearedBut lately a’ve been wonderin’ if it’s a’ been engineered!It was foisted on us months ago like some new kind ‘o plagueBut to me it’s very dubious and very, very vague!

Now if this awful swine flu was really tae be so badIt’d be somethin’ that by now we’d surely a’ have had!But they’ve put it bye for winter, now that’s when it’ll strikeWell if they think I’m swallowin’ that they can go an’ take a hike!

Cos’ they like to keep you in yer place,they want to grind ye downThey’ll fill yer heid wi’ nonsense,they’ll try tae win you roundThey’ll be our saviours in recession and this global “epidemic”Makin’ out they really care is now inherently systemic.

Now the real swines that a’ hope that are gonna’ catch this fluWill be the ones that invented it, no the likes ‘o me and youJust remember that you’ve no to believe everything you hearQuestion everything they tell you an’ it’ll ‘a be very clear!

But if you find yersel’ wonderin’ what steps that you can takeJist dinny touch their antidote, it could be a huge mistakeJust phone the self care helpline is the government’s retortAnd only phone the doacter as a really last resort!

This is my take on the "credit crunch" and all things relating to it. I wrote this early in 2009 when the whole thing was in full swing!

WHERE WE HEADIN’ WHO CAN SAYTHINGS ARE CHANGIN’ DAY BY DAYSOCIAL ARMAGEDDON SEEMS TO METO A CLEVER MAN IT’S CLEAR TO SEEWE’RE PATRONISED AND LECTURED WITH RULESLIED TO AND CHEATED, TREATED LIKE FOOLSONE DAY RICH, THE NEXT WE’RE POORTHEY WANT YOUR MONEY, THEY’RE AT YOUR DOORTHEY’LL TAKE AND TAKE IT SEEMS BEREFTNOW ROBBIN’ YOU BLIND WELL THAT’S JUST THEFT.

TAUGHT TO SMILE AND SMIRK BY THE PR MANWHO IS THIS GUY, THE JOKERMANHONESTY AND TRUTH HAVE GONE AWRYVOTED IN BY DEMOCRACY TO TELL A LIEBUT THEIR NUMBER’S UP, THEIR KINGDOM’S COMETHEIR GOOSE IS COOKED, IT’S OVERDONETHE SEAS ARE ROUGH, THE FISHIN’S THINTHE ENGINE’S FAILED, THEIR SHIP’S COME INCASH BOX IS EMPTY, THE CUPBOARD’S BAREWANT MORE TAXES JUST LET ‘EM DARETHE STORE’S CLOSED DOWN, HAND IN THE KEYSFEEL WHAT IT’S LIKE DOWN ON YOUR KNEES.

BANKS HAD THE MONEY NOW IT’S ALL GONETHEY LINED THEIR POCKETS, EVERY ONEPLAYED AND GAMBLED, LIKE A GAME OF ROULETTETHE RUSSIAN KIND, THAT WAS THE BETNOW JUST LIKE MAGIC, IT’S ALL SO CLEARINTO THIN AIR THEY’VE DISAPPEAREDINTO THE WOODWORK OR FOREIGN BEACHESWE COULD ONLY TRUST ‘EM, THAT’LL TEACH USTHEY’LL NEVER STARVE OR FEEL THE COLDNOT WHILE THEY’VE GOT THEIR POTS OF GOLDTHEY’LL TRY TO BE LIKE YOU AND MEAND DO THEIR UTMOST TO DECEIVEBUT RECOGNISE ‘EM AS THEY PASS YOU BYBY THE SUITS THEY WEAR AND THE CARS THEY DRIVE

NOW IT’S A GLOBAL THING, THAT’S WHAT THEY SAYBUT JUST LAST YEAR WE WERE MAKIN’ HAYWORK FOR EVERYONE, JOBS GALOREYOU DIDN’T HAVE TO LOOK TOO FARFILL YOUR POCKETS, FILL YOUR BOOTSYOU’RE HEADIN’ DOWN THE RICH MAN’S ROUTENEED MONEY FOR A RICH CARYOU DID’NT HAVE TO LOOK TOO FARBUT MAKIN’ HAY IS ONLY FINEIF THE SUN DECIDES TO SHINEBUT THE WEATHER THE POLITICIAN CAN’T “FIX”COS THAT’S A WHOLE NEW BAG ‘O TRICKSAND SKIES ARE LOOKIN’ MEAN AND GREYWITH ROLLIN’ THUNDER ON THE WAY

SO WHERE IS IT WE GO FROM HEREFUTURE DOES’NT LOOK SO CLEARYOU WANT A JOB SON, WE GOT NONEBIG BOOM TIME HAS COME AND GONETRY AGAIN IN A COUPLE ‘O YEARSTHINGS ’LL PICK UP I HAVE NO FEARBUT EMPTY PROMISES, HYPE AND SPINLOOK AT WHAT A HOLE IT’S GOT US INPOLITICIANS, IT’S JUST MORE ‘O THE SAMETHE PROCRASTINATION GAME.

BUT AMONG ALL THIS UNCERTAINTYA GLIMMER OF HOPE I THINK I SEEBUT IT DON’T COME FROM NO POLITICIANTHAT’D BE NOTHIN’ MORE THAN DREAMIN’, WISHIN’BUT FROM THE SPIRIT,TRUE, OF THE WORKIN’ MANWHO BUILT THIS COUNTRY ON HIS OWNWHO SWEATED BLOOD TO FEED HIS KIDSTO LAY EASY AT NIGHT UPON HIS BEDYEAH, HE CAN REST EASY, HE HAS NO FEARHE’S GOT A CONSCIENCE THAT IS CLEARUNLIKE THOSE WHO DODGE AND SHY AND SHIRKNEVER KNOWN THE WORTH OF A REAL DAY’S WORK.

A Little Bit About...

Brian, yes that's me! I love my family, music, guitars and writing. I have recently, quite by chance, began to write poetry. So I am a poet. Yes I am a poet. I can call myself a poet. How strange! Read my poems and enjoy!